Travel Blogs from Thessaloniki, Greece

... to Greece. I left Germany yesterday, took a train to Leipzig (where I paid about $1.50 to go to the bathroom) then flew to Thessaloniki, Greece. Outside the airport I saw the bus I needed was just about to leave so me and this other boy quick jumped on. I ...

... up the striking tower which was on the sgore nearby. It was a fort and then a prison and had an exhibition on Thessaloniki history. Unfortunately I was crabby and was not impressed as it was in greek having failed to see the audioguuide hire in the entry ...

There was a student protest in Thessaloniki and Athens last night. They marched through the streets. Here in Thessaloniki there must've been a few thousand youth that went through. I didn't know what the protest was about but it was amazing to see people ...

... on to the street in a hunter gatherer-like search of food and was caught off guard by the incessant bustling, and Thessaloniki's marginal tourism meant it was the first time I was completely without any latin alphabet whatsoever let alone any english, ...

... the station to catch my train. It was an...interesting journey, but I'll save that for my next post. When I left Thessaloniki I had been in Greece for 28 days, which is the longest time I am spending in any one country on this trip. Greece is ...

... ), and very cool. The Church of St. Demetrius, the patron saint of the city, was another highlight. Demetrius was born in Thessaloniki, and was a Christian martyr, killed by pagans in the early 4th century. This is a Byzantine church, and dates back to ...

... Vergina before
heading back to Thessaloniki. On
the way home, the bus stopped stopped at the Ancient Seven Towers Wall
overlooking Thessaloniki. The wall separates the old city from the new city, and it was an AMAZING view. I still can't quite ...

... very well might have been one of the synagogues where Paul preached. After Berea, we kept driving and spent the night in Thessaloniki. We got there in time to explore a bit, so we headed out towards Aristotle Square. Being the 2nd largest city in ...

... us in the city at 11:00pm. This is not the best time to try and find accommodations. Apparently there is only one hostel in Thessaloniki and its not much to write about. It only has 2 rooms, one for boys and one for girls and the owner is only there ...

... provided tells us we need to pay with US dollar and we only had Eur and of course all money exchange places in Thessaloniki where closed anywhere else you travel open 24hrs but not in Greece where they run a Greek time.
The conductor a helpful man ...

Aristoteles unfurled his staggering mind before us like a magnificent tapestry, so brilliantly complex that you despaired of ever following all of it. There was nothing under the sun that he didn't have some knowledge of, no question he couldn't ...

... museum when that will be, and he said it's up in the air. I think that would be a fairly typical answer, in Greece, to this question. However, they apparently know exactly how much it's going to cost, right down to the Euro-cent: ...

... before I forget! Most are true for both Turkey and Greece. - You cannot flush toilet paper due to the pipes throughout Turkey and Greece. I have to admit sometimes I forget out of habit! - In some places the water is safe to drink, but it is easy (and ...

Distance: 89.96 km Average speed: 23.2 km/h Moving time: 3h52min Total ascent height: 246 m Today was a very flat and even downhill day! Most of the day was dry except for the last 20 kms which were done under rain again... It looks like the rain ...

Sometimes I think of an imaginary conversation with an extraterrestrial creature. You know, one of these green ones with antennas and everything, but nice and cute. So he asks me
- Tell me, how does the time pass there on earth, what do you usually ...

We booked tickets to London from Thessaloniki, Greece earlier this summer. At the time, we weren't sure where we planned to travel in Turkey and Greece, but Thessaloniki seemed to be as centrally located as possible. After we decided to spend most of our ...

8 Hours by bus from Corfu to Thessaloniki, the second city of modern Greece and of the Byzantium. My first thoughts of Greece were, "how the hell am I gonna figure this city out!" All street signs were in Greek. I started to really ...

... are wearing coats. It appears heat is not in the cards today. Nonetheless, I become educated on the Byzantines. Apparently, Thessaloniki was the second most important city in their empire (after Constantinople) and hence, we quite the seat of culture. ...

We did quite a bit of research, well, Kevin did, for the first part of our trip. Our guidebook for Greece, however, did not include Thessaloniki, so we didn't know quite as much about what to do here. Kevin knew some and that there was an area called ...

We arrived in Kavala on Saturday 27 September, looking to spend a week or so waiting for the replacement mover. The campsite, Batis Terra, had had rave reviews and we were looking forward to some relaxation on a really nice beach. Well, ...

... a taxi to the train station, but ended up waiting for the train for almost 2 hours. We boarded a very nice, but slow train to Thessaloniki. We had one seat apart from the rest so we exchanged with an older man. One of the men in our cabin spoke great ...